Mary Beard has an interesting piece on the last stages of writing a book – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Ok I know you will think that you have heard this before, but the book is now within 1000 … Continue reading →

Félix Guattari on writing Anti-Oedipus in The Paris Review Writing about writing, and writing about theory and the use of languages When Heidegger met Lacan Good advice on ‘A Realistic Summer Writing Schedule’ from The Chronicle Books received – Foucault, Lefebvre, Cohen, Parikka, Esposito, … Continue reading →

Justin E.H. Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy is now out from Princeton University Press. I really liked his book on Leibniz, Divine Machines, so this should be interesting. The introduction can be downloaded here. People … Continue reading →

This has been the period between submitting the Foucault’s Last Decade manuscript and waiting for reader reports. I’ve largely been doing other things – talks on terrain and urban territory; editing a Lefebvre translation and writing its introduction; writing a … Continue reading →